Grade 4 Parents:
We have an exciting opportunity coming to our school next month. Blue Flame Kitchen from Atco Gas will be coming in to do an in school field trip for our students in October. The program cost is $15.75, however this cost will be completely covered using our nutrition grant funding that our school received this year. The program will teach students nutritional information as well as have a hands on component. Through there is no cost associated with this trip, we still need you to log into your PowerSchool account to complete a permission form. Please complete this form by Friday, September 21st.
- Please fill out the Verification Forms through Powerschool. This includes a Walking Field Trip form, which students will need completed in order to join the Terry Fox Walk on Friday Afternoon.
- Picture Day! Wednesday is our picture day, however, if your child is in Cross Country they will have their picture taken on Thursday.
- LDAA Cross Country is next Wednesday.
- ADSavings Book orders are due next Wednesday.
- Terry Fox Walk is on Friday afternoon! Bring a toonie for Terry!
- October 1st is Orange Shirt Day. Click here to learn about Orange Shirt day!
ELA
Through Read Aloud time, I try to introduce students to different books with series encouraging them to try reading new genres. This month, we have start The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. As I read, through discussion, we practice questioning reading strategies, predicting what will happen next, and summarizing what happens in each chapter.
Students have also begun typeclub! This year we are working on our keyboarding skills, as we use chromebooks very often in the classroom. Students spend 10-15 minutes working on their homerow typing and they absolutely love it! They work so hard and are cruising through their lessons.
We have also started Wesearch Wednesday on KidBlog! This is my favourite day of the week to introduce to the students. On this daily quick write, students will learn how to read through various non fiction resources, to research a specific topic. Through the year they will work on answering questions, creating their own questions, and summarizing information.
MATH
We are starting to build on our knowledge of increasing and decreasing patterns, and have begun to extend and identify pattern rules.
When given an pattern rule (i.e. Start at 56, add 6 each time) students were asked to extend the pattern. We also worked through word problems, using patterns to solve them.
This was a skill some students still required help, and reinforcement with. An example would be:
Blake had 15 dollars in her piggy bank. Every day she bus a muffin for 2 dollars. After 3 days how much money would she have left?
We also took some time to work with hundreds charts, looking for number patterns. using bingo chips, students worked through skip counting by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 and looked for patterns in the numbers.
We then discussed how these each number is a multiple of the number we are skip counting by, and related it to multiplication. Then we noticed some patterns in the ones place!
In partners students worked on KWL charts about Waste in Google Slides. What do you know? What are examples of waste? In Google slides they also added images from the web to accompany their writing.
Through Read Aloud time, I try to introduce students to different books with series encouraging them to try reading new genres. This month, we have start The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. As I read, through discussion, we practice questioning reading strategies, predicting what will happen next, and summarizing what happens in each chapter.Students have also begun typeclub! This year we are working on our keyboarding skills, as we use chromebooks very often in the classroom. Students spend 10-15 minutes working on their homerow typing and they absolutely love it! They work so hard and are cruising through their lessons.
We have also started Wesearch Wednesday on KidBlog! This is my favourite day of the week to introduce to the students. On this daily quick write, students will learn how to read through various non fiction resources, to research a specific topic. Through the year they will work on answering questions, creating their own questions, and summarizing information.
To kick this year off, I reached out to the students to see what topics they would like to research over the year. They had some awesome ideas!! I can't wait to get started on some of them!
We are starting to build on our knowledge of increasing and decreasing patterns, and have begun to extend and identify pattern rules.
This was a skill some students still required help, and reinforcement with. An example would be:
Blake had 15 dollars in her piggy bank. Every day she bus a muffin for 2 dollars. After 3 days how much money would she have left?
Try working through this with your child!
Students also worked to look at a sequence and identify the pattern rule. They practiced this with partners! In the hall they worked with pairs, one partner creating a sequence and the second partner had to identify the rule. Looking at each term in the sequence, they find the difference and identify the rule. They created some awesome sequences!
We also took some time to work with hundreds charts, looking for number patterns. using bingo chips, students worked through skip counting by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 and looked for patterns in the numbers.
We then discussed how these each number is a multiple of the number we are skip counting by, and related it to multiplication. Then we noticed some patterns in the ones place!
Look at the bold blue terms, these were key vocabulary terms from the week. Quiz your child! Can they explain them?
SOCIAL
We are still working through our mapping unit, covered titles, labels and reading and drawing ccompass roses.
SCIENCE
We are starting our unit on Waste and our World! To kick it off, we played a Kahoot game to see what students may already know.
Next, we brainstormed all the things we think are waste.
Waste is things we have used, and no longer need.
In partners students worked on KWL charts about Waste in Google Slides. What do you know? What are examples of waste? In Google slides they also added images from the web to accompany their writing.
They also will add questions they have about our unit, and throughout the unit they can come back to this document and add to it.
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